Our democracy is young but banner vandals are infantile

18 January 2016 - 02:09

By The Times Editorial

This weekend's brouhaha over the "Zuma Must Fall" banner in Cape Town shows that our nearly 22-year-old democracy still has a lot of growing up to do. On Saturday members of the ANC converged on a residential building in the Cape Town city centre and, reportedly brandishing knives and other sharp objects, demanded access to apartments so they could get to the banner to cut it down.

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